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As Fires Mount, NHTSA Puts the Heat on Ford: Park That Ford on the Street! III
By James B. Bleeker
The Detroit News reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has set a mid-August deadline for an information request that it has sent Ford regarding failures of its cruise control deactivation switch. It reports that now more than 500 fires have been attributed to this likely now notorious device. Some of these fires have destroyed homes and taken lives. (See "Ford's 2005 U.S. Safety Recalls Leap Past GM's: Ford Recalls About 750,000 Ford and Lincoln Pickups and SUVs in U.S.," Auto on Info, January 2005, "NHTSA Begins Investigating 3.7 Million Ford Pickup Trucks and SUVs: Oh Dear! The Garage Is Ablaze." Auto on Info, March 2005, "Park That Ford on the Street!" Auto on Info, May 2005, "Park That Ford on the Street! II," Auto on Info, June 2005, and "A Little Girl Dies; Attention Turns to a Faulty Ford Part," Bill Vlasic, The Detroit News, July 17, 2005, at http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0507/17/A01-250519.htm.)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that 16,000,000 Ford motor vehicles have switches similar to those involved in fires. Sean Kane of Safety Research and Strategies, Inc. is reported to have characterized Ford's potential liability as a "billion-dollar problem."
Source for NHTSA's most recent investigative action involving Ford's cruise control deactivation switch: "Safety Agency Widens Investigation," Bill Vlasic, The Detroit News, July 17, 2005, at http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0507/17/A01-250518.htm
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